-- St. Potter's wheel: "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou our Potter; and we are all the work of thy hand." -- Is. 64:8; and see Jer. 18:2-6.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
'Potter quarrels with potter, bard with bard, Beggar with beggar;'英文原著 · 《Lysis》
Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot-- I think a Sufi pipkin--waxing hot-- "All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"英文原著 · 《Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam》
The clay rose in smooth spirals under his hand, and the wheel sang, 'Shall the vessel reprove him who made one to honour and one to dishonour?' And I saw the potter thumping his wet clay, and the clay, plastic as dream-stuff, shaped swift as light, and the three Fates stood at his shoul- der. Dreams, dreams, and all in the spinning of the wheel, and the rich shadows of the old broken courtyard where he sat. And the wheel stopped and the thread broke, and the little new shapes he had made stood all about him, and he was only a potter in Peshawar."英文原著 · 《The Ninth Vibration》
Besides, he was only technically our founder. He had not founded a great public school. He had founded a little country grammar school which had pottered along for a century and a half. The great public school was the growth of the last fifty years, and no credit to the pillar of piety. Besides, he was only nominally pious. Nasmyth had made researches, and he knew. And why throw good money after a bad man?英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Bud went into a brush patch and managed to glean an armful of nearly dry wood, which he broke up with the axe and fed to the fire, coaxing it into freer blazing. The stranger watched him unobtrusively, critically, pottering about while Bud fried the bacon.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
I guess he was in some movie about a potter or a Pottery Barn or something?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
BoJack, for all the marbles: "Which famous actor played the titular role in the popular Harry Potter film franchise?" Yeah. I don't know.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Whether the second Harry Potter movie was as good as the first. (Laughter) whether the second Harry Potter movie was as good as the first. (Laughter)演讲 · 《The life-long learner ~ Bernie Dunlap》
That means I had to actually learn every aspect of making pottery by hand. That means I had to actually learn every aspect of making pottery by hand.演讲 · 《The playful search for beauty ~ Eva Zeisel》